Friday, April 17, 2026

Hypocondria Update

 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.

𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝐹𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛 & 𝑀𝑅𝑆𝑃 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑖 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘, 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑐𝑦𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟.𝐴𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑑𝑔𝑦 𝑙𝑦𝑚𝑝ℎ 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 .
𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝐶𝑇 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛 ( 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 ) .
𝐼 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑦 27𝑡ℎ , 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑇 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛.
𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑦. 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡.
I am ok with all this . "Past Caring" is my attitude at the moment . I share this here partly out of hypochondria ( i have suffered from this all my life!) And partly just to keep folk updated.

Sunday, April 05, 2026

INSTAGRAM

A photograph from my fab Instagram page here  ---->    Tony's old photos :
This one is from a Turkish Baths in Istanbul.

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Monday, January 12, 2026

R.I.P . Bob Weir

 Listen to the full audio of  Bob Weir / Ratdog at the Life Cafe : Manchester UK on 27th August 2003

HERE



  

Monday, December 22, 2025

Caught By The River and Other Detirus.......

As my late mother Marjory would have said , I've been feeling "𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒚-𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 " these past 2 weeks https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dic.../english/peely-wally I'm not over my cold/flu yet ( 2 weeks). At one point this week i started thinking 𝐶𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑 but that old test kit was out of date, so i chucked it in bin... 
𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 & 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐗𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐢𝐠𝐬 𝐝𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐲-𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲.

 Perhaps more seriously, 2 days ago I was contacted by my Consultant who is arranging yet another Scan for me. This one is Something called a " MRCP Scan" https://patient.info/treatment-medication/mrcp-scan    
Hopefully my Gallstones: Liver ( Cyst) , Kidneys & other Detirus will then become clearer. It's all a bit of a mystery to me as i feel fine . We shall see .I am not overly worried 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒) 
 But I could do without the uncertainty. I could do without the Drama..

Sunday, November 02, 2025

Strange Days

It's been a strange & wonderful week. 
Me and Cath celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary .
Plus I've I've been having 3 lots of Blood Tests & scans for my Liver!
 I'm not that worried , but it added to the oddness of the week.........

 

Friday, September 12, 2025

Friday, August 22, 2025

The Ballad of Ken Kersley of Mixenden near Halifax



 

So.I have been reinstated ( after appeal ) to both facebook & instagram. With only a few minor & temporary restrictions. Although strangly they did remove one post that contained photos of me the other week in Halifax out drinking on my Birthday with Marc Pepe & Bryn . They said i was " Impersonating " which-on some levels - is fair enough!
 One perk of my 10 days sin-binning was me using an alternative facebook account .Now for the past year I have been blocked by Ken Kersley .I have known Ken since 1971 .You might remember many photos of him here over the years . 
Ken stopped speaking to me soon after our mutual friend Phil died last year. Ken has never explained why & i havn't a clue for his reasons .Most strange ..... 
Anyway , i spied on his facebook account last week and he posted this. it's probably not directed at me ...but it does shed light on his thinking? 
Social Media seems awash with memes like this. Pretending to be "enlightened " but maybe just a justification for selfishness.....?
Maybe the "Drama" was not me at all , but Phil's death?
Just A Thought........

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

My Instagram & Facebook

 Just a very brief update regarding me & facebook   /  Instagram .

Sunday afternoon ( 10th August) i received these messages. Totally out of the blue .No explanation about the actual reasons . Plus ( despite what those messages might say) I cannot directly contest their actions.

However, I did find ( via a google search ) an email address for facebook's Community Standards and have sent them an email ( no reply yet ) .

I  am genuinely nonplussed about their actions. Now,  I do post a lot of "political stuff" on facebook. And recently these have been receiving lots of "likes" & "shares ".That's all I can image the reasons to be........who knows?

 I do know a doppelganger  ( a very nice chap )  who is kindly letting me share his facebook page . Drop me a message if you need the address of that.

I am actually more upset about also losing my instagram site. Will we ever see it's like again?





Saturday, July 19, 2025

instagram

just a gentle reminder that that i continue to post some of my old photos onto instagram here


 

Saturday, June 28, 2025

 just one of my regular reminders that i have an Instagram page that holds a stash of my old photos.

here https://www.instagram.com/tonyzimnoch/

This one here is me in 2005 in Massachusetts



Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Things To Do After Your Dad Dies.

A nice photo of me & Bob.

I attended my friend Bob's Funeral in Oldham this morning 
 He died about 5 weeks ago but , partly , it had been delayed because his son Neil (aka Nodge) McRoberts had been in the USA due to Business. attending a Conference in Stamford, Connecticut and ,prior to that. talking to Netflix Producers about summat or other !.
 He has his own podcast  Talking Scared   which includes Interviews with the likes of   Stephen King  &  Margaret  Atwood .He writes stuff for The Guardian : Esquire and Vogue Magazine . His first Novel comes out soon . pre-order  https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/goodboy/9781068563102
A busy lad !
needless to say, he spoke very well at today's funeral.


I have known Bob & his son for over 15 years.
 And I have some empathy with Neil's situation of being abroad knowing your dad is dead. 40 years ago I was abroad on Christmas Day in  Marrakesh when I heard my Dad had died suddenly .
Sadly , they had no American Footballs in Morocco ........

 

Saturday, June 21, 2025

■ A New Turkish Haircut ■

𝐼'𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 .𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 , 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡......


 

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Manchester Yesterday

Lovely to meet up with Don & Margaret at The Stoller Hall.The Rheingans Sisters are VERY good! Infact, the whole day was surprisingly mellow .
Everything went as it should have went ! A very relaxing day .

sunshine lollypops & roses........